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单词 dispositrix
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dispositrixn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin dispositrix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin dispositrix housekeeper (6th cent.), (with reference to divine providence) disposer (12th cent. in a British source), feminine form corresponding to dispositor dispositor n. < classical Latin disposit- , past participial stem of disponere dispone v. + -trīx -trix suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: diˈspositrix.
Latin feminine of dispositor = she that disposes or arranges. In quot. 1677 used attributively = Disposing, dispositive.
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1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 388 If it be so, that the gubernatrix and dispositrix mind do thus dispose althings..[on p. 473 the same passage is rendered ‘gubernative dispositive mind’].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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